
How do space telescopes point themselves?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to Turn a Space Telescope Without Mass
We talked about how space telescopes can know which way they're pointing out in space because it's pretty disorienting. So the second question now is how do they actually turn? How do they, like, if you're looking in one way, looking at a star and you want to look at a star over there, how do you make that turn? That's the physics puzzle.
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